[syslinux] boot from local drive does't work

夏磊 lei.xia at cs2c.com.cn
Mon Feb 24 19:27:35 PST 2014


Hi, all

I can't boot from local drive on some machines(thinkpad x200 and
thinkpad x1 carbon) using
syslinux 3.05 or syslinux 4.05.

And i change localboot 0xffff to localboot 0x80, boot from local drive
is available.

I find "0x80 is the primary hard drive. The special value -1(0xffff)
causes ISOLINUX to report failure to the BIOS, which, on recent BIOSes,
should mean that the next device in the boot sequence should be
activated" on syslinux wiki.

Isn't the syslinux and bios compatible, can I upgrade syslinux to use
localboot 0xffff?

Thanks!



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